The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Persistence and Resistance in English Studies
This book gathers together a selection of articles by members of the Association of Young Researchers in Anglophone Studies, covering a wide range of topics dealing with English literature and culture, language and linguistics.
An Introduction to Hanfei’s Political Philosophy
In this first book to make the philosophy of Hanfei available at an introductory level, Schneider introduces key concepts and arguments in his legalist philosophy and contextualizes his thinking within Chinese history and in a comparative approach.
Ertin looks into the terms “camp” and “the closet” in Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction, since all four of his novels investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century, to see whether the author writes from the margin or from the centre to recreate the origin.
This publication raises profound economic, ethical, political, sociological, and psychological questions. It explores our fears and fantasies as it examines a range of fictions, films, and TV programs that speculate about the possibilities of humans in the future.
History of Science as a Facilitator for the Study of Physics
Angeloni’s text serves to enhance scientific and technological literacy, by promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education with particular reference to contemporary physics.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
Translating Ethiopia
As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.
Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This collection describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces, approaching this phenomenon from an academic perspective.
The Internet’s new language balances expressiveness and speed. To convey emotion, users use pictographic symbols in a system that echoes ancient hieroglyphs. Will this virtual society become a counter-power to bureaucratic systems and penetrate the real?
Spatial Minds
To what extent is spatial language connected to conceptualization? This book investigates the similarities and differences in Hungarian, Croatian, and English, analyzing expressions like *in, on,* and *at* to shed light on the relationship between language and the mind.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
Conflict, Trauma and the Media
These essays study the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. They consider not only the motivations behind such work, but also the psychological consequences of witnessing extreme suffering.
Based on over fifty years of fieldwork, this book investigates contemporary Egyptian society. It explores folk customs of the lifecycle, from childbirth and marriage to funerary rituals, as well as social stratification and violence.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
The Divided Korean Peninsula
Seu details his personal experiences of both North and South Korea, having spent time in the latter state three times over a period of 17 years. Here, he notes the characteristics, the contradictions, merits and defects of this halved and impenetrable country.
The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
Inter-American Relations
From recognized authorities and new scholars in fields as diverse as international law, literature, political science, and history, these essays provide a fascinating multi-dimensional look at the intricate relationships between the polities and cultures of the Americas.
Zarstvo and Communism
After WWI, Russia’s Bolsheviks and Italy’s Fascists took power. Though ideologically opposed, they resumed severed relations for economic advantages. However, mutual distrust never stopped, rendering their ties tenuous until they were broken in the early years of WWII.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
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